Can I stop students booking during the school holidays?

Yes. Block the holiday weeks and they cannot be booked, while your weekly term-time slots carry on as normal.

Term-time-only tutoring hours

Quick answer

Tutor in term and stop in the holidays. Soopaspace lets you open term-time hours, book a weekly slot through the term, and close the weeks you are off.

A diary that follows the school year

Tutoring runs to the school calendar, not a rolling week. Lessons cluster after school, the same students come at the same time each week, and then half term arrives. In Soopaspace you open the hours you teach, give each student a standing slot, and block the weeks you are off. Here is how it works, shown on Ramsden Maths & English Tuition, an example business.

1Your hours

Open only the hours you actually teach

Set your teaching hours, such as after school on weekdays and Saturday mornings. Your booking page only offers the times you set, so a parent looking for a slot sees the evenings you teach and nothing else.

Teaching hours you set yourself
Only the times you are free shown on your page
Each lesson with its own length and price
A buffer after each lesson, set per service

A tutor sitting beside a secondary school student at a kitchen table, working through maths

Your teaching hours

Term time

Monday to Thursday16:00 to 19:30Every week
Saturday09:00 to 12:00Every week

Your page only offers the hours you set.

After-school hours and a Saturday morning: the only times parents can book.

2Holiday weeks

Block the holidays so nobody can book them

Block the half terms and the holidays as time off, and those weeks cannot be booked from your page. Nobody books you for the first Monday of half term, because the diary already knows you are off.

Block the holiday weeks so nobody can book them
Your page offers nothing in a blocked week
Term-time slots carry on as normal around them
The diary already knows when you are off

Time off

Blocked

October half termMon 26 Oct to Fri 30 OctOff
Christmas holidaysMon 21 Dec to Fri 1 JanOff
February half termMon 15 Feb to Fri 19 FebOff

Nobody can book you in these weeks from your page.

The school holidays blocked as time off, so they cannot be booked.

3Weekly slots

Each student keeps their slot through the term

A parent can choose to book the same time every week when they book, so their child keeps the slot through the term. Every lesson is a real booking with a reminder email before it. A lesson that falls in a holiday week can be moved or cancelled on its own, without touching the rest.

A standing weekly slot for each student
Every lesson a real, reminded booking
Move or cancel one lesson without touching the rest
Parents move or cancel within the notice you set

Find out moreSet a repeat booking once, and let it run

A parent and a tutor chatting at a front door

Alfie · KS2 maths

Every week

Tue
6 Oct
16:00
Tue
13 Oct
16:00
Tue
20 Oct
16:00
Tue
3 Nov
16:00

A reminder email goes out before each one

A weekly lesson through the term, with the half-term lesson cancelled on its own and the rest left as they were.

4Every other week

Students you see every other week

Not every student comes weekly. You can set up a repeat every two weeks yourself, and two students who each come every other week can share the same slot, one on the odd weeks and one on the even.

Alternate weeks for students you see every other week
Every two weeks, or any other gap, set by you
Each student on their own repeat
The same slot filled every week

Find out moreA calendar that understands alternate weeks

A tutor packing up after a lesson, relaxed

Thursdays, 17:00

Every week

Thu 5 NovIsla · KS2 EnglishOdd week
Thu 12 NovBen · GCSE mathsEven week
Thu 19 NovIsla · KS2 EnglishOdd week
Thu 26 NovBen · GCSE mathsEven week

Two fortnightly repeats, one Thursday slot.

Two every-other-week students sharing one slot, each on their own repeat.

5A whole term

A term of lessons, paid up front

A term can be a bundle: a set number of lessons sold together at a price you choose, with each booking taking one off. A parent uses the bundle at checkout with a 6-digit code sent to their email, and you can also book a student in from their bundle yourself.